Character portrait of performer and writer Gilda Varesi (later Gilda Varesi Archibald) with bobbed hair, a strapless dress, and long pearl necklace, partially obscured by a fan made of large feathers. Gilda Varesi starred as Madame Lisa Della Robia...

Character portrait of left profile of soprano Geraldine Farrar in costume for the role of Gilda in the Verdi opera "Rigoletto," which the Metropolitan Opera Company, of which she was a member, performed at Macauley's Theatre in April 1910. Born...